#41

As long as this great commuter-train parade ground remains open to the skies, the streets ringing it allow us to envision a different future.

Notes on the Gaza solidarity encampments

On the front lines of the attention liberation movement

On the dreams, schemes, and TV screens reshaping our homes

A visit to the Astor Place Wegman’s confirms we are, now and forever, among the Etruscans
(and also stuck in the ’90s).

Evading the question of fare evasion

New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.

The warm, comforting glow was unmistakable.

A shockingly unfeeling and vague idea of home

For Mark Foster Gage, the main issue with suburbanization is its ugliness, for which the alleged failings of architectural education are held responsible.

Is the myth of “pure originality” still a worthy target of criticism in 2024?

Designers, Silvio Lorusso stresses, have not properly plumbed the depths of their own uselessness.

In his fanaticism for capitalist optimization, H. H. Holmes was the equal or better of any industrial baron.

Algorithms are more our mirrors than our captors.

His supreme, tweedy confidence was softened with a vulnerability and kind of underdog spirit. 

Once radical in their challenge to religious and monarchical power, the assumptions undergirding the liberal humanist tradition—and its artwork—now feel
entrenched and flawed.

With each new draft—one more improvident than the last—Boris Iofan allowed the Palace of the Soviets to float higher into an illusory realm.